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TORONTO/MONTREAL — Two men charged with an alleged Al-Qaeda-backed plot to derail a Canadian passenger train made their first court appearances on Tuesday, and the lawyer for one said his client would fight the charges vigorously.
Raed Jaser...
LONDON — Kuwaiti author Saud Alsanousi has won the 2013 International Prize for Arabic Fiction for his portrayal of the lives of foreign workers in Gulf countries in "The Bamboo Stalk."
The 31-year-old Alsanousi became the...
TRIPOLI — A car bomb in Tripoli wounded two French guards at France's embassy in Libya on Tuesday, bringing new violence to a capital that has not seen attacks on diplomats like that which killed the US ambassador in Benghazi last...
Egypt said its economy would grow by 3.8 percent in the fiscal year starting in July as ministers outlined the 2013/14 budget to Parliament on Tuesday.
The forecast delivered by Planning Minister Ashraf al-Araby to the upper house of Parliament was...
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan will not reschedule his trip to the Palestinian Gaza strip, he said on Tuesday, despite a request to do so from the United States that had irked Ankara.
During a visit to Turkey on Sunday, US Secretary of...
Foreign exchange shortages are making it harder for Vodafone's Egyptian business to buy network equipment and it has asked some suppliers to accept payment in Egyptian pounds, its local chief executive said.
Two years of economic turmoil...
A global long-term cooling trend ended late in the 19th century and was followed decades later by the warmest temperatures in nearly 1,400 years, a sweeping study of temperature change showed.
The study, by a consortium of 78 authors in 24...
President Mohamed Morsy’s office issued a statement late Monday night regarding Morsy’s meeting with members of the Supreme Judicial Council, presided over by Mohamed Momtaz Metwaly at the Ettehadiya Presidential Palace in Heliopolis.
In...
At least 109 people have been documented as killed and up to 400 more are likely to have died in an almost week-long offensive by forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on a rebellious Damascus suburb, opposition activists said.
If the...
A reshuffle of the Cabinet will be done early next week, Prime Minister Hesham Qandil said in remarks carried on state newspaper Al-Ahram's website on Monday, but he declined to give details on which ministries will be affected.
President...
